Reflects on developments in the mid to late 1980s, which saw booming trading conditions for the retailing sector, and none more so than electrical goods retailing which underwent many changes both to the structure of the industry and the way it went about its business. Describes the...

Purpose With the shift to an information-based society and to the de-centralisation of information, information overload has attracted a growing interest in the computer and information science research communities. However, there is no clear understanding of the meaning of the term, and while...

Purpose – Informally computer scientists reported they could access free copies of research papers they needed via tools such as Google Scholar. To ascertain whether this perception came from widespread free access or from unnoticed employer-paid access, the purpose of this paper was to locate...